Colorado Lottery GameJam - Lu Cordova, Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Revenue

but now i want to introduce somebody else whose support has been so incredibly important to us and uh that is lou cordovar our senior director of the department of revenue she is also my boss but i want you to know that everything i'm saying i'm very sincere about it's not just because she's my boss [Music] you know lou has done a great job of looking for ways for all the departments of revenue to reimagine ourselves this tonight this is the start of one big part of it especially for the lottery you know we're very excited about that but she's really the perfect person to transform the department of revenue because she has an impressive resume an international finance digital transformation and e-commerce she is also currently the chair and ceo of c-tech the global non-profit breaking down barriers for entrepreneurs and the ceo of cortland industries llc a diversified holding company specializing in operations management strategic planning business development and capital finance she's also a force to be reckoned with and i want you to welcome lou cordova hey thanks tom that's really nice um well as you can tell i come from the private sectors i also ran techstars foundations so i've been around entrepreneurship for a long time i've had six companies i've a benetech investor and the governor asked me to bring that entrepreneurial spirit maybe a little bit of that entrepreneurial craziness to the department of revenue and see what we could do to reimagine state governments and so when i first met tom and he says we're going to have a billion dollar you know lottery and we're going to reach the highest level of responsible gaming i just thought i love this guy right he's got he runs the lottery with this dot-com head and a dot org heart and everybody on his team is so outdoors oriented this is fisher peak behind me and i remember thinking we can do this we can do this oh wait sometime in the next four years we're going to have a recession remember this has been the strongest run-up in history and it's like tom what are you going to do about a recession when it comes because things are going great to get to be a billion dollar lottery you need to have double digit growth per year even during the recession so you got to think of the box you got to think out of the office you got to think globally you gotta think mobily how about a hackathon and tom was like a heck of what and the team got on board they looked at it they investigated it they um now tom's doing trello the team scott jira going um it's really been a transformation and a mindset there there you go tom and and it really is about this crowd sourcing innovation and so the ideas that you bring to us this is going to inspire generations of people to engage in the lottery for what the lottery brings for the outdoors for schools for things like that and yes it's the first time it's been done in the lottery i'm super excited about it and it does go beyond the lottery the way we're thinking about the state also under the department of revenue is the motor vehicles the dmv so picture a world with no dmv offices but kiosks everywhere nearby at a starbucks at uh you know your local grocery store inside the local grocery store where you can get anything you need from state government where there's maybe a concierge there video people who can come and say you know even to your aunt mabel do you need some help with that let me show you what button to push on this right and that you can get all your services online we have my colorado app that you can get your driver's license online so for all of you in colorado that are not in colorado move to colorado it's way cooler here